Africaans

yo its yo boy elder whiting my little sister desided to start using the word yo so i decided to try it but i dont think it suits me so i guess that is it but things have been good i had an incredible experience where my investigator realized some incredible things and yea basically converted himself it was cool but the thing that stuck out is the fact that he said he was studying music and came across the idea "God didnt create color to make differences between things God created color to make beauty in all things" it was incredible and that is my thought this week what colors are you choosing to show the dull browns and blacks or the bright greens and reds and yellows. choose who you want to be love you all stay safe

Elder Whiting,

just for those who are curious i want to start learning languages so i will post my favorite phrases here just in case you want to learn too

kiss me in africaans (not for use on mission) soen my pronounced soon meh

Elder Whiting,

yea this is a title

how are all of you doing i just want to start with i miss you all and hope your dreams come true. but hey that out of the way things have been cool out here in south africa exciting it is weird in our house there are 2 ends of the spectrum one elder that has like 2 weeks left and one that is only 4 weeks old it is interesting to see the dynamics and see the difference in behavior. we had some dope meetings including one that scheduled a braai. (equivilancy of a bbq) and one powerfull investigator. more on that later. although things have been hard due to the fact. that we knock a lot of gaits. and verry big dogs called boerboels. but yea.

on the spiritual side we met one investigator named daniel and he seemed sketchy but later we learned that he got in a biking accident and when they opperated the machine cut one of the main veins in his neck and put him into a stroke. which led to a 3 month coma in which his wife saw an oppurtunity and took all his stuff about 700,000 worth in assets and cash and hit the wind. but what blew me away was my companion asked one question after all of this was said he asked "has this all drawn you closer or pushed you away from God?" to which he responded with "closer, only closer" so my question is do your trials push you away or pull you in?

Elder Whiting,

Matsoho a Hlatsoa

what is up guys things have been exciting here in bloemfontein. man 4 man boardings are exciting it is like a party every night but i curl up on the couch while the other three have a discussion i read my book and eventually fall asleep in the corner at which point my comp wakes me up and says that it is time for bed. ugh. better than getting beat with a pillow then trying to go to sleep again. 

the spiritual side of this message is in the title matsoho a hlatsoa what that means is hands wash each other in sutu. what that entails is the fact that you cannot wash one hand only and one hand cannot wash itself so in order for the hand to get clean it has to have support from the other. showing that we have to work together to become clean though one of us may be dirtier than the other. love you all stay safe i will see what i can do along the lines of pictures because the computer is being finicky

Elder Whiting,

yo yo yo

the greatest toy in the universe why because this week was fun. not too much happened other than my rump hurts from biking everywhere. my comp had a hard time after we got our bikes repared then we whent less than a block and he did a little bunny hop off the curb and wreaked his rear rim so he had to go sheepishly back to the repair shop to get it replaced. yea that was pretty great the guy had one coment after we came in he said "i think that i have your problem figured out. you are trying to do high performance tricks with a not so high performance bike" yea pretty great cool guy

on the spiritual side we had an incredible experience in the boarding i was sitting on the couch eating cornflakes with peanut butter- a new favorite - and the other elders came in and had one big thought and that was something that their investigator told them it was in responce to a survey that they where handing out on campus and one of the questions is do you think that life is fair? to wich the person responded "life is fair to everyone in the fact that it is fair to no one equally" that blew me out of the watter it goes back to our trials our trials may seem harder than someone elses but until we are experiencing their trial with their circumstances it is better to realize that god is fair to all. well sorry guys no pics this week still trying to find my camera again but hey yea it is somewhere in my luggage

Elder Whiting,

ja ja binkses

just cause i cant figure out what to call these any more. how are things back home and here they are good it has kinda been hard but yea things are working out slowley that tends to happen when you get transfered you got to get your feet back under you but hey life happens. and as a wise teacher's wall once said life might drag you back but we must remember that even the great tiger takes a step back before leaping forward.

pics to come love you all

Elder Whiting,

yea yea yea

so how is it yall things are great in lesotho but sadly my time is short here i am leaving... yep you all heard me right TRANSFERS!!!!! yes i am going to an area called bloemfontein it is really exciting after all of this time in township i will be going to town so yea i am so excited how are yall i want to know send me an email update me yes please

pt 2

so yea that being over with things have been good this week it has been a little hectic because i am leaving so saying goodbye is hard but it will pass. on top of that i had an exciting experience i was walking along and not one not 2 but thr33 less active members stoped us and said that they would come to church telling us what happened. it is just like in the best 2 years we where walking along and nothin then we knocked on this ladys door and nothin then i realized what was wrong you know where he wanted to go THE GROCERY STORE!! yea right place at the right time God prepares those that we teach.

pictures to follow

Elder Whiting,

What Up

yo incredible thought here me and my younger bro are on mission at the same time  on opposite sides of the world so when you look at it there are technically elder whiting is a world wide known title. oh and how many of you saw the lunar eclipse that happened? it was legendary. will send photos.

spiritual thought that guy karabo the one i told you about last week we taught him the restoration last week and he loved it and understood as we taught lots of questions he blew me away as well as we cleaned the baptismal font last week but the water ran out when the water was only about 2 or 3 feet (i dont know it has been too long since i have used the unit feet.) but yea so we are praying that the water come on again and we went to check on Sunday and the water was there so yay we should have some baptisms for maputsoe the "o" is a w sound, next week yay more updates to come

Elder Whiting,